vowel
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vowel
- /ˈvaʊ.əl/
- /vaʊl/ also
Rhymes with -aʊəl, -aʊl
Where it comes from
From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
noun vowels
- A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
- A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely). The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
verb vowels · voweling · vowelling · voweled · vowelled
- To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic). However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […], plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […].
